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Andrew Mallard, who was wrongfully convicted of the 1994 murder of Mosman Park jeweller Pamela Lawrence, has launched a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against eight police officers, the Director of Public Prosecutions and his deputy, the chief forensic pathologist, a chemist, his psychiatrist, the Police Commissioner, the Police Minister and the State of WA over the 11½ years he spent behind bars. ->Read MoreANDREW Mallard, who spent almost 12 years in jail after being wrongfully convicted of the murder of Pamela Lawrence, has filed a civil writ against the state of WA. ->Read More Justice Unity Dow's impending retirement from the Botswana High Court is not surprising given her unconventionality. Customarily, judges literally die on the bench. At 49, she is still a youngster in a profession where people retire in their 70s. ->Read More The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control Friday named 26 individuals and 17 companies tied to Myanmar's Wei Hsueh Kang and the United Wa State Army as Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers. ->Read More Police Minister Rob Johnson said yesterday people caught with knives in public should get mandatory jail sentences of nine months and that he would talk to Attorney-General Christian Porter about changing the State?s weak weapons laws. ->Read More
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